Ethan Lange vividly recalls the first time he met Allison Dickson. It was a few years back when they were students at Baylor Law School. “She struck me as a person I can be an influence on, who I can…
Gushee: Evangelical support for Trump a failure for Christianity
A moderate Baptist ethicist says evangelicals who support Donald Trump for president represent a failure of conservative Christianity. David Gushee, a distinguished university professor at Mercer University, attributed the Trump phenomenon to a failure to “inoculate” American Christians against ideas…
CBF personnel aiding with cyclone recovery in Fiji
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is deploying field personnel to the South Pacific island country of Fiji, hit Feb. 20 by the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere. Eddy Ruble, who along with his wife, Cindy, was commissioned…
Citing divorce, CBF pastor stepping down
A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship pastor in Texas announced Sunday he is resigning his pulpit because he and his wife are going through a divorce. Brent Beasley, pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, said during his Sunday morning…
Embrace ‘extremist’ Christianity to counter hate, ministers say
By Jeff Brumley Joe Phelps admits he is a Christian extremist. For years, he’s being spreading his brand of faith all over Louisville, Ky., where he’s pastor of Highlands Baptist Church. And now he admits he’d like to see it…
Embrace ‘extremist’ Christianity to counter hate, ministers say
Joe Phelps admits he is a Christian extremist. For years, he’s being spreading his brand of faith all over Louisville, Ky., where he’s the pastor of Highlands Baptist Church. And now he admits he’d like to see it catch on…
Roma children get shot at literacy, income with help of CBF field personnel
Imagine illiterate first-grade students excited about learning to read. Then picture them learning, on the first day of school, that their teachers and fellow students are speaking and writing in a different language altogether. It doesn’t take them long to…
Pastors pray for water justice for Texas community
Pastors across the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex gathered Feb. 27 for a prayer rally to draw attention to a historic African-American community denied basic services like running water. “We’re going to ask God to intervene and break into this situation and…
Pastor says Trump ‘true friend’ to evangelicals
Evangelical Christians will have a “true friend” in the White House if Donald Trump is elected president, a Southern Baptist mega-church pastor said at a Trump campaign rally Feb. 26 in Fort Worth, Texas. “Donald Trump cares about and loves…
Roma children get shot at literacy, income with help of CBF field personnel
By Blake Tommey Imagine illiterate first-grade students excited about learning to read. Then picture them learning, on the first day of school, that their teachers and fellow students are speaking and writing in a different language altogether. It doesn’t take…
CBF Arkansas first state group to celebrate 25 years
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas celebrated its 25th anniversary in a gathering of leaders and friends Feb. 19 at Second Baptist Church in Little Rock, Ark. The event, held in advance of the CBF Arkansas annual gathering April 22-23…
Historically black Baptist college losing president
Arkansas Baptist College President Fitz Hill announced Feb. 24 he is leaving his post Sept. 1, reportedly to transition to a new leadership role with the Arkansas Baptist College Foundation, a fund-raising organization that in recent years has been largely…